Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Grant Mitchell
1874-06-17
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Columbus, Ohio, USA
Grant Mitchell (born John Grant Mitchell Jr.) was an American stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for his portrayals of fathers, husbands, bank clerks, businessmen, school principals and similar type characters, usually supporting, in films of the 1930s and 1940s. Mitchell, a Yale post graduate at Harvard Law, gave up his law practice to become an actor, making his stage debut at age 27. He appeared in lead roles on Broadway in such plays as "It Pays to Advertise", "The Champion", "The Whole Town's Talking", and "The Baby Cyclone", the last which was specially written for him by George M. Cohan. His screen career took off with the advent of sound (years earlier he had appeared in at least two silent films). He appeared primarily in B films, though from time to time enjoyed being a part of A-quality productions such as Dinner at Eight (1933), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Grant Mitchell retired from show business in 1948. He died, age 82, in Los Angeles in 1957.
Filmography
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Movie
as Ed Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948 · Movie
as Judge
Blondie's Anniversary
1947 · Movie
as Samuel Breckenbridge
Blondie's Holiday
1947 · Movie
as Samuel Breckenridge
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947 · Movie
as Al Farrow
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Movie
as Mitchell Edwards
Honeymoon
1947 · Movie
as Congressman Crenshaw
Easy to Wed
1946 · Movie
as Homer Henshaw
Conflict
1945 · Movie
as Dr. Grant
Crime, Inc.
1945 · Movie
as Wayne Clark
A Medal for Benny
1945 · Movie
as Mayor of Pantera
Guest Wife
1945 · Movie
as House Detective
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · Movie
as Carlson (uncredited)
Bring on the Girls
1945 · Movie
as Ralph Neely
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945 · Movie
as Passenger with newspaper
Bedside Manner
1945 · Movie
as Mr. Pope
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · Movie
as Reverend Harper
Step Lively
1944 · Movie
as Dr. Gibbs
And Now Tomorrow
1944 · Movie
as Uncle Wallace
When the Lights Go On Again
1944 · Movie
as Arnold Benson
The Impatient Years
1944 · Movie
as Hotel Clerk
See Here, Private Hargrove
1944 · Movie
as Uncle George
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie
as Edgar Holliday
Dixie
1943 · Movie
as Mr. Mason
All by Myself
1943 · Movie
as J.D. Gibbons
My Sister Eileen
1942 · Movie
as Walter Sherwood
Cairo
1942 · Movie
as Mr. O.H.P. Boggs
Larceny, Inc.
1942 · Movie
as Mr. Aspinwall
Meet the Stewarts
1942 · Movie
as Mr. Goodwin
The Gay Sisters
1942 · Movie
as Gilbert Wheeler
Orchestra Wives
1942 · Movie
as Dr. Ward
March On, America!
1942 · Movie
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Movie
as Ernest W. Stanley
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · Movie
as Wellington Carruthers
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie
as George Payne
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Movie
as Clayton Potter
The Feminine Touch
1941 · Movie
as Dean Hutchinson
Skylark
1941 · Movie
as Frederick Vantine
Nothing but the Truth
1941 · Movie
as Mr. Bishop
The Penalty
1941 · Movie
as Judge
The Great Lie
1941 · Movie
as Joshua Mason
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
as Caretaker
New Moon
1940 · Movie
as Governor of New Orleans
It All Came True
1940 · Movie
as Rene Salmon
Father Is A Prince
1940 · Movie
as John W. Bower
My Love Came Back
1940 · Movie
as Dr. Kobbe
Edison, the Man
1940 · Movie
as Snade
We Who Are Young
1940 · Movie
as Jones
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · Movie
as Dr. Ames - the Psychologist (uncredited)
The Bride Wore Crutches
1940 · Movie
as E.J. Randall
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Movie
as Senator MacPherson
The Monroe Doctrine
1939 · Movie
as John Quincy Adams
Hell's Kitchen
1939 · Movie
as Hiram Krispan
On Borrowed Time
1939 · Movie
as Mr. Pilbeam
6,000 Enemies
1939 · Movie
as Warden Alan Parkhurst
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 · Movie
as John Archley
Reformatory
1938 · Movie
as Arnold Frayne
Hollywood Hotel
1938 · Movie
as B.L. Faulkin
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938 · Movie
as Henry Peck
Women Are Like That
1938 · Movie
as Mr. Snell
Youth Takes a Fling
1938 · Movie
as Duke
That Certain Age
1938 · Movie
as Jeweler
The Headleys at Home
1938 · Movie
as Ernest Headley
The Last Gangster
1937 · Movie
as Warden
First Lady
1937 · Movie
as Ellsworth T. Banning
Lady Behave!
1937 · Movie
as Burton Williams
The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Movie
as Georges Clemenceau
Music for Madame
1937 · Movie
as District Attorney Ernest Robinson
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · Movie
as John Summers, Luxury's Owner
Next Time We Love
1936 · Movie
as Michael Jennings
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Movie
as District Attorney Markham
Piccadilly Jim
1936 · Movie
as Herbert Pett
My American Wife
1936 · Movie
as Robert Cantillon
Moonlight Murder
1936 · Movie
as Paul Adams
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936 · Movie
as Paul Krumpp
Her Master's Voice
1936 · Movie
as Horace J. Twilling
Parole!
1936 · Movie
as Marty Crawford
Straight from the Heart
1935 · Movie
as Austin
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · Movie
as Egeus
One More Spring
1935 · Movie
as Henry Sheridan
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935 · Movie
as Thomas Hayden
In Person
1935 · Movie
as Thaddeus Parks
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · Movie
as E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
Men Without Names
1935 · Movie
as Andrew Webster, banker
Traveling Saleslady
1935 · Movie
as Rufus Twitchell
It's in the Air
1935 · Movie
as W. R. Gridley
Redheads on Parade
1935 · Movie
as Minor Role (uncredited)
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Movie
as Egeus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · Movie
as Self
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Movie
as Louis Lamson
The Cat's-Paw
1934 · Movie
as Silk Hot McGee
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934 · Movie
as District Attorney Claude Drumm
The Secret Bride
1934 · Movie
as Willis Martin
The Poor Rich
1934 · Movie
as Tom Hopkins
We're Rich Again
1934 · Movie
as Wilbur Page
Gridiron Flash
1934 · Movie
as Howard Smith
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · Movie
as J. Walter Delmar
Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934 · Movie
as Sharpe
The Show-Off
1934 · Movie
as Mr. 'Pa'
One Exciting Adventure
1934 · Movie
as Fussli
Dancing Lady
1933 · Movie
as Jasper Bradley Sr.
Heroes for Sale
1933 · Movie
as George Gibson
Wild Boys of the Road
1933 · Movie
as James Smith
Lilly Turner
1933 · Movie
as Dr. Hawley
Central Airport
1933 · Movie
as Mr. Blaine
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Movie
as Austin Winters
Our Betters
1933 · Movie
as Thornton Clay
Convention City
1933 · Movie
as J.B. Honeywell
The Stranger's Return
1933 · Movie
as Allen
Dinner at Eight
1933 · Movie
as Ed Loomis
King for a Night
1933 · Movie
as Rev. John Williams
I Love That Man
1933 · Movie
as Dr. Crittenden - Dentist
He Learned About Women
1933 · Movie
as Appleby
Saturday's Millions
1933 · Movie
as Ezra Fowler
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933 · Movie
as Joe Martel
No Man of Her Own
1932 · Movie
as Vane
Three on a Match
1932 · Movie
as Mr. Gilmore (uncredited)
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932 · Movie
as Martin Collins
A Successful Calamity
1932 · Movie
as Connors
Week-End Marriage
1932 · Movie
as Doctor
Big City Blues
1932 · Movie
as Station Agent
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 · Movie
as Tester of Convicts' IQs (uncredited)
If I Had a Million
1932 · Movie
as Prison Priest (uncredited)
The Star Witness
1931 · Movie
as Pa Leeds
Man to Man
1930 · Movie
as Barber John Martin Bolton
The Man from M.A.R.S.
1922 · Movie
as Arthur Wyman
The Misleading Lady
1916 · Movie
as Stephen Weatherbee
